I get lots of comments about the cargo bike. Usually it’s: ‘can I have a lift?’ The best is from a teenager I passed by: ‘it’s the future of cars!’ (young people know their stuff). Today’s comment was a new one: ‘can I have a bath in that?’. Ummm... no.

Every single mainstream tech site (Engadget, Ars Technica, TechCrunch etc) is more about consumerism than helping to improve the lot of humanity through technology. No wonder our relationship with tech is very disposable, things need to change.

Well I just managed to delete all the data on this Mastodon instance simply by upgrading it via Git and running db:migrate. I think the documentation still needs a bit of work. In the meantime I'll investigate backing up Docker containers.